Sunday, August 5, 2012

The
Supreme Court (SC) tried to sound Solomonic in its resolution of the
impasse on the Congress representation in the Judicial and Bar Council
(JBC), but in the end it was an admission of its abject inability to
rule independently and stick to its position.

The acting Carpio
Court’s decision to suspend its “executory” decision that Congress is
only entitled to one seat in the JBC was clearly a co-opting to the
whims of both the Palace and Congress on the issue.

While the
decision was not entirely a reversal of the earlier ruling, it exposed
the Carpio Court’s lack of resolve in defending what the SC justices had
already interpreted as what was contained in the Constitution which was
the expressed limit of only one representative for Congress in the
body.

The decision resulted in both legislative chambers to order
their representatives to withdraw from the nominating body which is
tasked to draft the shortlist for the SC chief justice candidates from
which Noynoy will choose the head of his reclaimed and pliant high
court..... MORE